On 2008/12/12 01:06 (GMT+0100) Daniele composed:
Il giovedì 11 dicembre 2008, Felix Miata scrisse:
Top shows it running in the 50%-60% range. It's sending my CPU temp up high enough to bump the BIOS overheat warning frequently. That setting is currently 78C/172F, and rebooting while the temp was elevated showed a temp of 70C, with similarly elevated temps on the other sensors. So far the only way I know to make the beeping stop is to drop to runlevel 3.
But 50/60% only for kded or total usage ?!
kded was using 90%-95% of total usage.
I'm asking this because 70C with CPU at 50/60% is too high for me..
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL79L is probably my CPU, with a design spec of 69.1C.
After cooldown, fresh cleaning, reboot directly into BIOS, & 20 min uptime, temp is at 61C.
I still think is too much. With my old athlon XP2800 overclocked, I reach 66C (in summer) after playing doom3 for few hours..
Comparing AMD to Intel regarding temps is pointless.
Try doom or something similar and see what happens..
The box only runs SUSE. I don't play games on any box, and don't know anything about Doom.
Rebuilding the kernel (on another big software..) is another possible test..
I built kernels on it a while back. IIRC it never touched that level of temperature or CPU usage. Kernel building is a lot more disk I/O dependent than I imagine kded is.
The CPU is a socket 478 P4 3.0G, about 5 years old, but I don't remember whether Prescott or Northwood. Fans & heat sinks are all clean and working.
I dont know what to say, P4 CPUs heat like a nuclear plant. So all is possible..
They're not all the same. The one I have (Prescott @ 3.0GHz) is one of the most effective heat generators of them all. Months or a year ago it had a problem with heat generation, and I underclocked it several weeks to solve the problem pending a new CPU cooler, which stopped the beeps and stopped the random BIOS overtemp-forced shutdowns.
How do I figure out what is making KDED use so much CPU, and stop it without having to log out?
Sorry, I don't know but follow my advice, change heat sink and/or fans..
The cooler is supposed to be good enough for 3.6GHz. The fans are all working as designed. The problem does not occur under normal usage, only when a runaway process works the CPU intensively. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=122904262017936&w=2 is a reply to my same question on the kde-linux list that offers an apparent solution. The ultimate solution is system replacement. I already built it weeks ago. I just have to get an OS chosen and installed, the former of which has been proving difficult due to my mandatory requirement for X to have functioning panning virtual desktops, AFAICT missing from openSUSE 11.0 & 11.1 and other xrandr distros released in the past year or more. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org